Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-04-07

nips or potatoes each week is better thar
to omit such food altogether. It is var
iety that promotes health and keeps the
stock in condition.
1t is an easy matter to have garden
SO arranged as to cultivate it with horse
hoe, but the best results are usually OBJ
tanned on small plots well MANFRED and
worked by hand.
Never use whitewash in the stables OF
hen house unless carbolic acid is add
ed to 1t, as single application of the
mixture i. better than two Or three of
whitewash alone.
Col. F. D. Curtis is satisfied that white
corn is better for feeding pigs than vel
low flint. The grain is light. containing
less fat-forming material, consequently
it is not so heating. 1t makes healthy
growth of body, bone and muscle to-
gether with the fat, while the harder,
richer yellow flint makes preponderancs
of fat.
A COW givihg milk naturally drinks
much more water than another animal of
the same size. With the temperature
down to zero or below, and drinking from
q hole in the ice, the cold water will lower
the temperature of her body for hours,
retard digestion and decrease the yield of
milk. The cow, In fact, will not drink
much of this cold water, and this is one
reason for decreased yield.
The reason poultry killed at home,
though young is not as tender as that
bought at the market is that the former
is generally not killed until wanted, and
when eaten is still rigid with death, while
that hOnnht a tho has
killed at least hours-more often days.
Poultry ought to be killed several days
before being eaten, dressed at once
and with few bits of charcoal in it.
hung in a cool place.
few rules for making good butter
are: First, be very clean in milking
washing the udder and teats before be-
ginning; use tin pals, well scalded and
clean; strain in deep pan, about eight
inches in diameter and twenty inches
deep; keep the milk cool; do not allow
the cream to stand over thirtysix hours
on the milk; charm the cream thirty six
hours after skiming, and keep the cream
at a temperature of go before churn-
ing.
It is not wise to put leaves for protec-
ton thickly over plants. They hold
moisture, and rot instead of protect, and
often breed mildew, which is as cold. It
is bright light, together with frost, that
Injuries plants, and enough leaves to
shade is all that is required. This Is
why evergreens, such as rhodendrous and
kalmias, suffer so much in winter. Some
thing to keep off the sun is as beneficial
as omething to keep off the frost. For
this reason the ground is itself a good
protector. Many tender fruits can be
taken care of by bending the branches
and covering with earth.
Among the most valuable stimulants
for starting hens to lay are cayenne pep
per, ground ginger or puiverized gentian
root, either of which may be mixed in
moderate quantities with soft food. A
good tonic and at the same time stimu
may be made up as follows: Red pepper
two ounces: ground ginger, one ounce:
ground gentian root, one ounce; green
vitriol, one ounce; assafetida, one ounce
Mix thoroughly and feed once every two
or three days in soft feed. The above
quantity is for fifty hens, which should
be decreased to half at all feeds after the
first.